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Hi! My name is Qadoshyah and I'm the oldest of 11 kids. I live on a ranch in the beautiful country of Northeastern Oklahoma with my family. We are a large household with so many kids that we have various projects going on: We raise goats, pigs, sheep, and rabbits (I raise the rabbits - cute little mini lops) on our 44 acre ranch. Our ranch is also home to bullmastiffs, chickens, guinea hens, ducks, llamas, a donkey, a bottle calf, and several ranch dogs and livestock guardian dogs. The youngest two kids are boy/girl twins born in Feb. '05. The boy happens to have Down syndrome. He is such a blessing to our family :)! Our whole family is also gluten-free, which adds another interesting aspect to our large, active family. We also cook dairy-free & corn-free due to allergies a few kids have. Some of the family is also on the GAPS diet to restore gut health.

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Our sessions are scheduled for Thursday, May 24, 2012.
The conference will be held in Lombard, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
The five-day conference is free, with a nominal $25 material/ handling
fee.

All T21 sessions are located at room Grand CD and will be presented one after the other with comedian and father to child w/T21, Bob Orvis as MC.

This information below is accurate, the schedule on the AutismOne website is not correct.

Dawn of a New Decade8:00 am - 8:55 am

Jane Winans, parent of a thriving child with Down syndrome, shares
her journey and discusses biomedical options she used for her daughter.
Hear from 10-year old, Lydia, in this moving opening session designed to
enlighten and empower parents. Click to see
video 1 and video 2 of Lydia. .

Why talk about Down syndrome at an Autism Conference?9:00 am - 9:55 am

Parent-researcher, Laurette Janak, relates similarities in health
histories between DS and ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) families and how we can best learn from
them. Woven into the discussion will be valid, scientific reasons for trying biomedical options.

Biomedical Basics: Where to Begin

10:00 am - 10:55 am

Dr. Norman Schwartz explains how optimizing nutrition, exploring
supplementation, monitoring the thyroid, utilizing lab results and
avoiding environmental toxins are the building blocks needed to form a
solid foundation upon which your child may flourish.

Trisomy 21: Understanding the Problem11:00 am - 11:55 am

Dick Deth, PhD shares an easy-to-understand overview of some of the
major issues facing our children including the methylation cycle, the
Alzheimer's connection, oxidative stress and the effects of GABA
overexpression.

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--Lunch Break--

What's Next? Exploring Options

1:00 pm - 1:55 pmDr. Anju Usman will explain the next level of biomedical information
including optimizing a healthy gut-brain connection, and nutrients for
brain repair and neurogenesis, which is the brain's ability to create
new brain cells and new connections.

Alison Wimmer will explain the fundamentals of neurodevelopment and
why it works beautifully with the holistic approach to DS therapy
giving our children the opportunity to succeed beyond our expectations.

The
Future: Choose Your Own Adventure4:00 pm - 4:55 pm Sessions end with each parent's exciting new journey before them. Cheryl Greene
will share her time-saving strategies to help parents fit everything in
their busy schedules. Andi Durkin (parent to Jett) will unveil great new
resources to support parents as they
explore and implement OPTIONS for healthier children including a new
Foundation
and website with a parent database. The floor will open for questions
and
answers.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Blogging has been on the back burner so far this year. But, I thought I'd pop in here and share a cute little story about O. He's quite the character and seems to do more and more funny things the older he gets :).

Today we were doing flash cards. O has the hardest time remembering the two letter words we read, “in”, “it”, and “is”, but he can remember 4 or 5 letter words so easily (kind of a weird puzzle there!)!

Anyways, we got to the flash card with the word “in” on it and he had no idea. After trying to remind him, make him think and focus, and he still didn't remember, I told him the word was “in.” O replied with "oohh", with the tone of an "oh duh" kind of response :). I said “you always forget that one.” Being the silly boy that he is, O, as he made a funny face and was pointing to his head, said “need to get it in my brain!” Hahaha! We all were laughing at him.

He then proceeded to tell me he needed to get some other words “in his brain” as we went along with the cards, since we all laughed at that statement.

O comes up with some of the quickest, most hilarious statements sometimes! Such a blessing!